Omen Ft. J. Cole
Текст песни Mama Told Me

[Omen - Verse 1:]<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Tryin follow my intuition as I'm on this million dollar mission<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special, thank God I listened<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">My environment never let me be a pretender<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Similar interest with them dope boys but I was different<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">The hoop dreaming only child ? hyde park ?<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Pimp slayers, gang wars, living in a lonely town<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Who can I relate to?<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Feeling like the Golden child, Chi city culture<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Full of Pain, full of soul sinkers<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Dead bodies in our rivers but their souls link up<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">A young black man living with unrealistic dreams<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">But luckily I've seen some unrealist things<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">A child from the city took the good route<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Always fit in and always stood out, complex<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Layered, rather show you than say it<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Though I know my greatness is always understated<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama working 12 hours days on her feet<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Coming home cooking dinner, made her son wanna weep<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">My step father working while I'm zoning the beast<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Meanwhile my biological was roaming the streets<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Tryna be an entertainer, but my heart held love no anger<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">He yelled, yeah, tryna be a singer<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">I guess this just the life I was made for<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "> <br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Hook:<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Gotta love her for that (yeah)<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "> <br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Gotta love her for that (yeah)<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "> <br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">[J. Cole - Verse 2:]<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Yeah, truly yours, J. Cole<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">My mama coulda been a movie star<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Ya know like Judy Garland<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">I went to St Johns I coulda went to Julia<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Cause my beautiful mom mixed with my musical bond<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Deep as a funeral line, dawg, I get it from my mama<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">I used to be embarrassed getting picked up in that Honda<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Thought my niggas might play me if they found out that my mama was a white lady<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">So like gravy had to cover that<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Plus my older brother black but he look white<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">In an all black school, picture what that look like<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">No wonder he was under-acheiving not believin' in himself<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Coming home just be keeping to himself<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Looking back through the silence, he was screaming out for help<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Maybe this verse can find the words to get the demons out himself<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; ">So yeah, I'm exercising<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Right now my record climbing, I'm sort of a stair master<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Niggas got there faster, I took the long route, I never been a scared rapper<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Boy this aint fear factor, they tell me can you hear the ?<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">SPilling out these ? made the world clear a path<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Bet I'll be on top from now till ?<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Im special, mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Know I love her for that<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "> <br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Thats right I'm special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Know I love her for that<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Know I love her for that<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "> <br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">[Omen - Verse 3:]<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Tell me, whats the marketing plan for realness<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">What's the demographic target audience for brilliance<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Whats the first week numbers for my inspiration<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Who can A&R this passion and this dedication<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Name: Omen. This aint a verse, this a revelation<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">We need some more Sanaa Lathan's in our population<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">I'm meetin' women I would never date<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">The kind that say they want a marriage but they really want a wedding day<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">I'm seeing groupies tryna act like they don't notice me<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">But the writings on the wall call it hoe-itry<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">My calls but thats not what my focus be<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Music's forever my lady unlike Jodeci<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">See when a leaders speaking you should simply follow suit<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">I stay in the zone like it's ?, let me show you how to shoot<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">You know aim for the gold, these are just the chronicles<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">There calling me the honorable, though I am not no muslim<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">I'm feeling bro like ?, tricky like a good sin<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">I'm somethin you've mistooken, mistake them for fakeness<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Haters don't know what you facing<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Oh goodness, oh gracious<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">They looking at greatness<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "> <br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">I was special, mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Gotta love her for that (yeah)<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">mama told me I was special<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Gotta love her for that (yeah)<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "> <br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Gotta love her for that (yeah)<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Gotta love her for that (yeah)<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Gotta love her for that<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Gotta love her for that (yeah)<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Gotta love her for that (yeah)<br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; ">Mama told me I was special